How To Use Seabird In A Sentence
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This species is also closely associated with colonies of various seabirds and marine mammals; it feeds among birds and seals and has been considered a commensal of those colonial animals.
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Some common shorebirds and seabirds in the Southern Arctic are the semi-palmated plover, northern phalarope, lapland longspur, parasitic jaeger, and semi-palmated plover.
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Litter poses a threat to dolphins, whales, turtles and seabirds by entanglement in and ingestion of plastics.
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Many shorebirds and seabirds are found here, including rhinoceros auklet, Brandt's cormorants, and all manner of gulls, puffins, petrels, murres, and more.
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We walk along the beige pebbly Uruguayan sand, on the other side of the equator from where we live, the squawking seabirds overhead, the beach empty of others as far as we can see.
History of a Suicide
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Rat predation had reduced one of the largest breeding colonies of Xantus murrelets to just a few pairs, earning the seabird a potential spot on the federal Endangered Species List.
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The grassy slopes were grazed by apparently fearless and footsure sheep, and in parts the sheer cliffs were occupied by seabirds - fulmars, kittiwakes and auks.
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Yet its former inhabitants, much like the seabirds, are endangered.
Times, Sunday Times
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The marbled murrelet, a bird about the size of a robin, is the only seabird to nest in old growth forest.
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Oil pollution is the commonest cause of death for seabirds.
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Gale force winds which threatened floods at the weekend have blown unprecedented numbers of a small Arctic seabird on to the North sea coast.
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This trophic reorganization is hypothesized to be an important contributor to declines in populations of seabirds and marine mammals, because lipidpoor gadids and flatfishes generally replaced lipid-rich fish species in the Gulf of Alaska food web.
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Two seabirds with restricted breeding ranges, the providence petrel (Pterodroma solandri) and white-necked petrel (P. cervicalis) have been reported breeding on Philip Island.
Norfolk Island subtropical forests
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Declines in seabird populations (kittiwakes, boobies, cormorants, pelicans) have also been blamed on depletion of the fish stocks that they feed on.
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He has additionally been working on different aspects of the behavior of seabirds, especially the common murre (Uria aalge), and is knowledgeable about biological philosophy as well as biology education.
Contributor: Jonathan M. Jeschke
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Millions of seabirds nested in ground burrows.
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And rather than go hungry, the birds are preying on other seabirds like puffins and kittiwakes.
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In tropical vegetated seabird colonies such as Aride, predatory ants may feed on tick eggs and larvae thereby reducing tick levels.
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He was also able to catch small fish and grab seabirds that landed in the boat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many seabirds died as a result of the oil spill.
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Oddities apart, visitors to the island are currently enjoying the annual spring spectacles of throngs of nesting seabirds and carpets of bluebells.
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He has drawn particular attention to the amount of organic waste once generated by the seabird colonies - mainly guano, but also lost eggs, dead birds, spilled food, and molted feathers.
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Many seabirds died as a result of the oil spill.
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So did populations of sooty shearwaters, a seabird that eats young fish and large plankton, which plummeted 90 percent.
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Driftnets and longlines are notorious for killing other species, including seabirds and marine mammals.
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For some seabirds, predation by gulls on host eggs or chicks may impose a more significant limitation on reproductive success and that has resulted in culling programs at several seabird colonies.
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Here's just one example: for the South Georgia Patagonian Toothfish fishery, stringent requirements include an independent observer on board every vessel on every trip to record catch data and fishery interactions with seabirds and a range of measures taken during the course of the involvement with the MSC program to reduce seabird by-catch has reduced albatross mortality from several thousand annually to single figures.
Chris Ninnes: Protecting B.C. Salmon Stocks
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Marine vertebrates including tunas, seabirds, sharks, sea turtles, pinnipeds and cetaceans use a pelagic ecosystem we barely understand.
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Offshore, great rafts of the seabirds rise and fall slowly on lazy swells, their white heads glowing in the faint afternoon sun beneath an approaching line of dark clouds.
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In the early 19th century, fur traders wiped out its seals; during the Gold Rush, a lucrative and larcenous trade in seabird eggs killed millions of common murres.
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The puffins are the biggest draw but a vast array of other seabirds including tens of thousands of guillemots and razorbills are there during the spring and summer.
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Northerly winds and currents will tend to drive oil slicks towards the spectacular seabird and seal colonies of Cape Terpeniya and Tyulenniy Island.
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I know too, that nylon and stretch elastic, cast aside by fishermen, catches around seabirds' legs and either slowly kills or maims them.
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Once fouled on the reefs, the nets go on fishing, killing sea turtles, fish, seabirds and other wildlife while destroying corals.
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There are growing fears about the capacity of fish and seabirds to absorb potentially harmful plastic compounds and to pass the effects up the food chain.
Times, Sunday Times
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A recent study found that a five per cent increase of birds in the skua diet would result in an annual loss of thousands of other seabirds.
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Coastal and seabird numbers have remained stable, with big increases in guillemot numbers balancing the decline in kittiwakes.
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Bempton is the largest seabird colony in England and is home to a breathtaking array of gannets, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, fulmars - and puffins.
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Burger and Gochfeld provide a thorough discussion of the utility and limitations of using seabirds as bioindicators of pollutants.
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To feed, it would swoop down to grab squid and eels that swim near the surface or smaller seabirds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Molecular dynamics analysis of a second phosphate site in the hemoglobins of the seabird, south polar skua.
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Other important breeding colonies of seabirds - such as shag, razorbill and fulmar - are also in freefall.
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The dominant garlic pear tree is a favored roost of the magnificent frigatebird Fregata magnificens, the most abundant seabird on the island (11,800 birds in 2001-2002) and of brown pelicans (200) and red-footed boobies Sula sula rubripes (200 birds).
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico
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The approach to James Ross is through the Antarctic Sound, a beautiful stretch of water teeming with wildlife - the ship was joined by hundreds of penguins porpoising along, as well as humpback whales and countless seabirds.
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The plankton that permeates these waters attracts vast swarms of anchovies, which in turn draw millions of seabirds.
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The Rocas Atoll hosts more than 150,000 seabirds, including the largest South Atlantic colonies of sooty terns, brown noddies and masked boobies Sula dactylatra.
Brazilian Atlantic Islands, Brazil
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Seabirds nest on the cliffs and float on the smooth sea, scattering as the RIB zooms past.
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But seabirds such as albatrosses and petrels, which have large, tubular nostrils, are known to use scent clues to locate nesting sites and prey out at sea.
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We offer the natural wonders of whales, icebergs and seabirds framed by dramatic seascape, landscape and unique culture.
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The seaside fish market is a ready food supply for scavenging seabirds.
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The new allometric equations presented by the authors advance our understanding of seabird energetics in important ways and enhance our ability to predict energetics and conductance.
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The marbled murrelet, a threatened seabird species, nests primarily in old-growth trees up to 75 kilometers from the coast.
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Here, you can watch seabirds such as gannets and puffins up close - or stay inside and watch live videos, using remote control television cameras, from the nearby seabird colonies.
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Along thousands of miles of coastline, you will see colonies of seabirds clustered in cliffs - gannets, puffins, guillemots, razorbills, and kittiwakes.
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Low tide on a recent morning at Traeth Coch, or Red Wharf Bay, saw yachts high and dry on chocks as seabirds swirled below the radiant cloudlets.
Country diary: Anglesey
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Albatrosses are seabirds with long, narrow wings, a short tail and large webbed feet.
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The marbled murrelet, a threatened seabird species, nests primarily in old-growth trees up to 75 kilometers from the coast.
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Their particular foraging strategy (diurnal provisioners, multiple daily food deliveries) may help explain why they and not all seabird species have the ability to adjust provisioning effort.
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Hemp oil largely replacing petroleum could mean the end of tanker disasters at sea which cause loss of life to seabirds and other marine organisms.
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The crows nest has become an ideal lookout post for sighting dolphins, whales, porpoises, seabirds and turtles.
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This is probably because of a problem that is now afflicting many British seabirds - a decline in the number of sand eels in the sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are the only seabirds whose nesting habitat is in old growth or mature trees.
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That general finding is consistent with previous nonexperimental work in birds as well as with experimental studies involving passerines and colonial seabirds.
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Seabirds rest on ledges above us, but seem happy with our presence, so we don't get dive-bombed.
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Seabirds often come inland to find food.
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In the early 19th century, fur traders wiped out its seals; during the Gold Rush, a lucrative and larcenous trade in seabird eggs killed millions of common murres.
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Paleogene fossils also document diverse extinct branches of the neornithine tree, ranging from large pseudotoothed seabirds to giant flightless land birds to small zygodactyl perching birds.
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There has also been a nine per cent decline in the number of seabirds breeding in the UK over the past decade.
The Sun
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Many islands, such as Kiritimati (Christmas), have feral cat populations that have extirpated ground-nesting seabirds from areas they can reach.
Central Polynesian tropical moist forests
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Among oceangoing avian species, albatrosses and frigatebirds are the quintessential seabirds.
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There has also been a nine per cent decline in the number of seabirds breeding in the UK over the past decade.
The Sun
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The marbled murrelet, a bird about the size of a robin, is the only seabird to nest in old growth forest.
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High densities of argasid ticks have been linked to egg and seabird nestlings desertion and lower survival of Cattle Egrets.
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Some seabird populations have been found to respond to long-term climatic changes in the North Atlantic Ocean [31], the North Pacific Ocean [32], and Antarctica.
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic
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First we are in search of that funny-looking seabird, the puffin.
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Albatrosses are seabirds with long, narrow wings, a short tail and large webbed feet.
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It does untold damage to the numerous pelagic seabirds indigenous to the area: murres, puffins and gannets.
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Captivated by the breathtaking scenery, his sensitive response to nature encapsulated his impression of the roar of the waves rolling into the cavern and the cries of the seabirds.
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Above the clifftop soared the seabirds, pearly, dreamlike, their wings carving scimitar arcs into the vaulting sky.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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She walks towards the water and looks beyond the grass, to where the seabirds run and lilt softly on the pebbly foreshore.
SEA MUSIC
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Sandbanks act as nursery grounds for many commercial fish species such as plaice and sole whilst also supporting sand eel communities that are a food source for seabirds and mammals such as seals, it said.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Bempton is the largest seabird colony in England and is home to a breathtaking array of gannets, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, fulmars - and puffins.
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This has a knock-on effect on the fish and sand eels that feed on them, which in turn affects the survival of seabirds.
Times, Sunday Times
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We spotted all of the expected shorebirds, seabirds, and songbirds.
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Seabirds such as gulls and terns, even pelicans, can point the way to ‘sure thing’ action when the excited flocks are low and tight, dipping and circling.
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Even seabirds that dive into the jungle of wavy fronds must now look for food elsewhere.
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The story is somewhat confused, but it may be that the word was first applied to the Great Auk, a flightless seabird now extinct which, like the penguin, used its wings to swim underwater.
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Humeri of the extinct seabird grew to about 65 cm long.
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So did populations of sooty shearwaters, a seabird that eats young fish and large plankton, which plummeted 90 percent.
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This is modified by the prevailing high humidity, giving peaty soils and a wide distribution of oceanic plants such as liverwort Frullania teneriffae, by the effect of salt spray even hundreds of meters inland, resulting in Plantago-dominated swards on cliff tops, and by the fertilizing effects of vast numbers of nesting seabirds which create a rich turf.
St Kilda (Hirta) National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom
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I know too, that nylon and stretch elastic, cast aside by fishermen, catches around seabirds' legs and either slowly kills or maims them.
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It's fascinating to watch as the ship pulls up to a buoy, and hauls it out of the water so the accumulations of seaweed and seabird droppings can be removed with a pressure hose.
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The Pacific seabirds called brown boobies lay two eggs but hardly ever fledge more than one chick.
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That information could potentially shed light on whether physiological constraints, rather than strategic adjustments, are most important in limiting egg production in murres and other long-lived seabirds.
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It does untold damage to the numerous pelagic seabirds indigenous to the area: murres, puffins and gannets.
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But polar cod, capelin, sand eel (Ammodytes spp.), and squid (Illex illecebrosus) are probably the most important pelagic/semi-pelagic macrofauna acting as forage for fish such as Greenland halibut and cod, marine mammals, and seabirds.
Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland)
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Thick-billed murres are arctic seabirds that breed at high densities on cliff ledges, where they lay a single egg without constructing a nest.
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Uriel de la Torre, a biologist who specializes in conserving the guanay cormorant and other seabirds, said that unless some measure emerged to prevent overfishing, both the anchovetas and the seabirds here could die off by 2030.
Archive 2008-06-01
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For marine life and seabirds, the plastic fibres found in their guts could cost them their lives.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only the cry of seabirds disturbed the silence.
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Only the cry of seabirds disturbed the silence.
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Seabirds often come inland to find food.
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Here, we use data collected on the diet of an Arctic-breeding seabird, the thick-billed murre, to infer changes in fish populations in northern Hudson Bay over the past two decades.
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They scan the flocks of seabirds and waders and warblers intently, because they know that, in the midst of a thousand common birds, there may be one rare bird hitching a ride.
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Seabirds, particularly albatrosses and petrels, regularly grab the baited hooks.
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Penguins, cormorants, murres, and guillemots - all pursuit divers - have, among seabirds, the heaviest eggshells as a percentage of whole-egg weight.
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Their diet consists primarily of bony fishes and small sharks, including young bull sharks, but they have been known to feast on everything from seabirds to dogs.
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Common eiders, thick-billed murre, and black guillemot (Cepphus grylle) are the most commonly harvested seabird species in arctic Canada, and are utilized by indigenous people wherever they are available [33].
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic
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And, with seabird droppings showering the coastal spinifex each day, there is dense cover for thousands of nesting birds, which include frigates, boobies, noddies and Bridled Terns.
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Thus, the ravaging of the rookeries continued for decades, decimating the once-robust seabird colony.
Smithsonian
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The long Norwegian coast is home to millions of seabirds, including a large number of auks and kittiwakes, which are found in the northern half of the country.
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Seabirds flocked above our heads.
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For seabirds some of the largest colonies of tropical Atlantic seabirds are found on the Fernando de Noronha islands, with large numbers species including the black noddy or Anous minutis, the brown noddy Anous stolidus, the sooty tern Sterna fuscata, the fairy tern Gygis alba, the masked booby Sula dactylatra, the brown booby Sula leucogaster, the red footed booby Sula sula; the magnificent frigatebird Fragata magnificans and the red-billed tropicbird Phaethon aethereus.
Brazilian Atlantic Islands, Brazil
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Successful seabird colonies were established based on this concept, and by using decoys and song playbacks, other potential areas could become attractive after a disturbance, natural or otherwise.
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It belongs to a group of seabirds commonly known as petrels and shearwaters.
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Along thousands of miles of coastline, you will see colonies of seabirds clustered in cliffs - gannets, puffins, guillemots, razorbills, and kittiwakes.
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Among the species most likely to vanish from the earth in the next few years are the Hawaiian crow, the Balearic shearwater (a Mediterranean seabird) and the begonia oxyanthera, a plant which is native to Cameroon.
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From 1979 to 1985, he conducted his own extensive collaborative research program on the sublethal effects of oil on seabirds.
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Fulmarus glacialis, a cliff-dwelling, gull-like bird of northern seas and coasts; it belongs to a group of seabirds commonly known as petrels and shearwaters.
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It does untold damage to the numerous pelagic seabirds indigenous to the area: murres, puffins and gannets.
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Manuk Island and Mount Api (north of Wetar), two nature reserves in the Banda Sea, are the breeding and roosting sites for millions of seabirds.
Banda Sea Islands moist deciduous forests
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Major seabird and waterbird colonies include those of red-footed booby Sula sula (3,000-4,000 individuals) on Half Moon Caye, brown booby Sula leucogaster on Man O'War Caye, and common noddy Anous stolidus on Glover's Reef.
Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, Belize
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Although the numerous seabirds that surround it in spring are great too watch, be aware of the great skuas, or ‘bonxies’.
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Probably the seabirds found extra food among the small fish and marine animals which clustered near the larger items of rubbish.
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Austin, one of the sport's pioneers, has been compared to a soaring seabird, so graceful are his moves.
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Researchers are not concerned that the species is in trouble as fulmars are one of the world's most numerous seabirds.
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It is also a home for rare whales and weird fish, the breeding ground for two-and-a - half million seabirds and the silt in which dozens of previously unknown crustacea secrete themselves.
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Polar bears, seals, sea lions, walruses, whales and millions of seabirds call the Bering Sea home.
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They point to a recent survey which found scraps of plastic in the digestive systems of 96% of dead seabirds.
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Therefore, we encourage others to study molt in alcids and other seabirds by collaborating with zoos, aquaria, and others around the world that house such species.
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Predators include snoek, kob, some shark species, seals and seabirds.
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The lure of eight species of penguins and more than 50 other seabird species is enormous.
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Margate and Long Sands in Kent, Red Bay in Northern Ireland and North Norfolk sand banks act as nursery grounds for many commercial fish species such as plaice and sole whilst also supporting sand eel communities that are a food source for seabirds, porpoises and seals.
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The 1986 oil spill killed 9, 000 seabirds along the coast between San Francisco and Big Sur.
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The first spill of some 5,000 tonnes of oil fouled beaches with an evil-smelling bed of tar, killed or coated hundreds of seabirds and caused untold damage to the region's renowned shellfish and fish resources.
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This change might affect the migration and reproductive ecology of the ivory gull and other seabirds in the High Arctic.
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Therefore, we encourage others to study molt in alcids and other seabirds by collaborating with zoos, aquaria, and others around the world that house such species.
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Although the gannets and other seabirds that nest at Bempton in their tens of thousands have now left the area for a winter at sea, there will still be birds to see at the reserve over the coming months.
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Bempton is the largest seabird colony in England and is home to a breathtaking array of gannets, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, fulmars - and puffins.
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This 2,951-acre facility also provides safe haven for some 50 species of waterbirds, shorebirds, and seabirds.
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Many shorebirds and seabirds are found here, including rhinoceros auklet, Brandt's cormorants, and all manner of gulls, puffins, petrels, murres, and more.
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Everything was withdrawn as far as possible,/indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken,/seabirds in ones or twos".
Ten of the best beaches in literature
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Whole cliffs of guano, the soluble nitrogen-rich excreta of seabirds, had piled high on a few rainless islands off the shores of Peru.
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This is probably because of a problem that is now afflicting many British seabirds - a decline in the number of sand eels in the sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Additionally, seabirds including Northern fulmars and Cassin's auklet have been injured or killed.
Permit to Kill Pacific Sea Turtles and Whales Requested by Seafood Company
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Plastic is swallowed by fish and seabirds, inhibiting their growth, and can end up being consumed by humans.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plastic is swallowed by fish and seabirds, inhibiting their growth, and can end up being consumed by humans.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seabirds often come inland to find food.
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Fish and crustaceans enter this system, attracting native waterbirds, shorebirds, and seabirds, which regularly forage along the ditch's riparian banks.
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With more food available, the numbers of guano-producing seabirds, including cormorants, boobies and pelicans, similarly increased from 1925 to 1955.
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But we are talking about oil reaching a coral cay which is globally important for seabird breeding and the nesting of green and loggerhead turtles.
Raw Story
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The ship glided over the waters with ease, like a graceful seabird sails just above water.
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The coral cay, which is surrounded by a delicate coral reef, is near the seabird and turtle nesting sanctuary of North West Island, where clumps of oil about five metres apart stained about one kilometre of beach.
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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The team found that populations of seabird species the eagles had historically preyed on, such as Brandt's cormorant and Cassin's auklet, are now greatly reduced on the islands.
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The world's biggest seabird, the wandering albatross, is in peril because of long-line fishing.
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The catastrophe [of these] seabirds is just a foretaste of what lies ahead.
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The section between Bonne Nuit and Bouley bays, though tough, is entirely on the cliff path and is stunningly beautiful, with the sound of waves crashing against precipitous cliffs and the relentless cries of seabirds.
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Today the still air held the bleating of sheep and the cries of hundreds of thousands of seabirds.
Times, Sunday Times
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The total population of seabirds, waterfowl, and shorebirds may exceed a million birds.
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Oil pollution is the commonest cause of death for seabirds.
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Their definition of forage fish includes fishes, squids, and the shrimp-like crustaceans called krill that swarm in cold waters where they feed everything from seabirds to whales.
Carl Safina: Seabirds: The Other Seafood Lovers
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BLM officials and environmental groups say endangered wildlife, such as coho salmon, the northern spotted owl and the marbled murrelet, a diminutive seabird that nests in old-growth redwoods, would be disturbed if new trails were cut and hikers, horse riders or mountain bikers poured in.
EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
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Wildcats prey mainly on smaller animals, particularly voles, wood mice, and seabirds but they also kill rabbits and mountain hares.
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Today the still air held the bleating of sheep and the cries of hundreds of thousands of seabirds.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘It is hard to imagine, I know, but more than 300,000 seabirds are dragged to their death every year after swallowing baited hooks on longlines, many of which can go up to 80 miles behind a boat,’ said the Prince.
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To date, mitochondrial rate calibrations have been generated (in chronological order) for geese, Hawaiian honeycreepers, cranes, partridges, procellariiform seabirds, and ratites.
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For marine life and seabirds, the plastic fibres found in their guts could cost them their lives.
Times, Sunday Times
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Surging prices for synthetic fertilizers and organic foods are shifting attention to guano, an organic fertilizer once found in abundance on this island and more than 20 others off the coast of Peru, where an exceptionally dry climate preserves the droppings of seabirds like the guanay cormorant and the Peruvian booby.
Sr. de la Torre, I beg to differ!
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Different gruiforms were found to belong to both groups; mesites, kagus and sunbitterns were metavians close to owlet nightjars, grebes and sandgrouse; seriemas and bustards were coronavians without close relatives; while the gruiform core was part of a coronavian clade that included divers, cuckoos, turacos, tubenosed seabirds, storks, herons, penguins and pelicans.
Archive 2006-11-01
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This is probably because of a problem that is now afflicting many British seabirds - a decline in the number of sand eels in the sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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To feed, it would swoop down to grab squid and eels that swim near the surface or smaller seabirds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seabirds often come inland to find food.
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Other important breeding seabird populations are the magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) and red-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda).
Cape Verde Islands dry forests
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Unlike seabirds like terns or shearwaters, which can rest and feed along the way, the curlews will drown if they land on the ocean.
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Known locally as solan geese, gannets are Britain's biggest seabird, having a wingspan of up to six feet.
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Thick-billed Murres are highly colonial, cliff-breeding seabirds of Arctic waters.
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The most widespread are the common terns, which were once predominantly seabirds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unlike seabirds like terns or shearwaters, which can rest and feed along the way, the curlews will drown if they land on the ocean.
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Bempton is the largest seabird colony in England and is home to a breathtaking array of gannets, razorbills, and puffins.
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He was also able to catch small fish and grab seabirds that landed in the boat.
Times, Sunday Times
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The little seabird nests high in coastal forests, a fact that had eluded ornithologists until several years ago, when a bird with webbed feet flopped out of a felled tree.
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There are growing fears about the capacity of fish and seabirds to absorb potentially harmful plastic compounds and to pass the effects up the food chain.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the same time, seabird populations have suffered large die-offs, crab and shrimp populations have crashed, unusual algae have bloomed, sea ice has shrunk, and gray whales have washed up dead.
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Seabirds like pelicans, penguins, and cormorants are highly vulnerable to oil, which can cover their feathers with a gluelike substance that can immobilize the animals.
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I remember being so enthralled by one scene, where the sailors were trying to capture a seabird that had landed on the gunwale, that I almost shouted at my sister, who came into the room just then, Shut up!
Iain Lawrence Talks About Himself
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Seabirds like pelicans, penguins, and cormorants are highly vulnerable to oil, which can cover their feathers with a gluelike substance that can immobilize the animals.
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In Hawaii, cats and dogs as well as the imported mongoose have seriously affected nesting waterbirds and two seabirds - the dark-rumped petrel and Newell's shearwater, according to the National Biological Service.
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If the market you are trying to attract is people who value going to look at seabirds, sketching and kids playing, you don't want 40 cars driving through the brae, turning at the harbour and going back.
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Birdwatchers have been flocking to the shores of the Firth of Forth after thousands of South American seabirds made an unscheduled stop.
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Taking a Quaker stewardship view of nature, Douglas loved creatures of the wild, from the low-slung sand crab to the stilted seabird.
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The stormy grey glass wings of a tiny seabird stretched over my palm as the little beak stayed frozen in a silent cry.
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As he says, to watch the seabirds sheer off the surface as these monsters plough through the waves is a sight never to be forgotten.
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Millennia of visiting seabirds left large fossilized guano deposits on Nauru.
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The Scottish Seabird Centre on the harbour front is a fascinating diversion offering interactive family fun.
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In Hawaii, cats and dogs as well as the imported mongoose have seriously affected nesting waterbirds and two seabirds - the dark-rumped petrel and Newell's shearwater, according to the National Biological Service.
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Then, as everyone stared at the old besom, the rapt silence was broken by the rolling thunder of a single cannon, setting the seabirds to wheeling and shrieking.
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And not just seabirds, but, as the authors say, "other predators in marine ecosystems," such as big ocean super-fishes like tunas and billfishes, and marine mammals.
Carl Safina: Seabirds: The Other Seafood Lovers
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Therefore, measurements of dive depths and profiles are significant components in many studies of seabird foraging ecology.
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Along thousands of miles of coastline, you will see colonies of seabirds clustered in cliffs - gannets, puffins, guillemots, razorbills, and kittiwakes.
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Lying in bed, Kate closes her eyes and listens to the sudden sharp warbling of seabirds down on the foreshore as the wind gets up.
SEA MUSIC
